Mississippi River dreams
Subtitle: coming of age in the 1850's
By: by Mary Charlotte Aubry Costello, with illustrations by the author.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Mary C. Costello
Published: 2004
Place of publication: [Iowa]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
Subjects: Railroad bridges -- Mississippi River -- Fiction.; Quad Cities (Ill. and Iowa) -- Fiction.; Mississippi River Valley -- Fiction.
Genres: Mississippi River; Fiction.
Description: This is the story of an Irish Catholic family and the hardships and difficulties growing up in the 1850s along the Mississippi River.  This was a time when the railroad was part of the dream to "go West young man."  It was also the time of an Underground railroad and the slavery debates.